Now all thats left is the water tower, which has a preservation order on so cant be knocked down. [Sources:RCAHMS, National Monuments Record of Scotland, drawings collection.]. In 1837 he had published an influential series of lectures on What Asylums Were, Are and Ought to Be. Very grim. Barnes hospital, Cheadle This creepy hospital in Greater Manchester has been abandoned since 1999. [Sources: 8thAnnual Report of the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland 1853,p.vi: Alan Heaton-WardLeft Behind: A Study of Mental Handicap,1978, pp.49-50, 53:The Builder, 7 July 1900, p.16;Buildings at Riskregister ]. Its combination of the Hplan and Tudorstyle, gabled front elevation tend to give it the air of the contemporary poorhouses. The Craighouse development is considered separately below, and resulted in the demolition of Robert Reids original buildings in 1896. The Abandoned Sunnyside Asylum, Scotland - YouTube Although when it was first built the asylum was outside the town, by the mid-1840s development was encroaching. He was energetic in lobbying the Lunacy Board in an attempt to dissuade them from proceeding until the amendment act was passed in 1863. To explore, discover and share abandoned places in Fife and beyond. {Previously I haderroneouslyattributed Dingleton Hospital to Peddie & Kinnear, they may have been unsuccessful competition entrants.} The hospital was decommissioned in stages from the mid 1980s, closing completely in 2003. Updated. [Sources:British Medical Association,Aberdeen 1914, A Handbook and Guide, Aberdeen, 1914:Grampian Health Board Archives,Annual Reports.]. CALDWELL HOUSE, UPLAWMOOR (ruined) Caldwell House, designed byRobert Adam, built 1771-3, was a mansion house in Adams restrained castle style. Originally built in 1781 the now derelict Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum is located in the town of Montrose, Scotland. It was deliberately constructed from materials which would blend in with the principal block. City of the Dead, an abandoned mental hospital and more of Glasgow's The original block was designed on an Eplan of two storeys. The asylum was designed in two distinct parts connected by an imposing chapel and offices. MERCHISTON HOSPITAL, JOHNSTONEThe present hospital was built c.197984 for the mentally handicapped. By the end of the 20 th century, increased awareness of mental health disorders and their appropriate treatment led most of these residential facilities to be shuttered and often abandoned. It has since been rebuilt and the grounds being redeveloped by local developer Grant Keenan. Additions were made in 18191821 under the guidance of Reid, with modifications of the original plan, since he has had an opportunity of visiting with a discerning eye almost every commodious asylum for the Insane which has lately been built whether in England, in Scotland or in Ireland as the Annual Report for 1821 declared. In 19379 a new Nurses Home was built on the western edge of the site, designed byThomas Somers, the City Engineer. hi janis, im doing a bit of research of this hospital and would love to hear from you, my research is about how mental health patients where treated by then and how things have changed, if you coudl email me that would be great to ask you some questions on it to add in, WELL I KNEW SOMEONE WHO WAS IN HARTWOOD HOSPITAL WITH THE NAME OF BILLY MCALLUM HAD A KILT RUCK SACK VERY MUCH INTO WALKING AND WAVING TO CARS PASSING BY WELL HE WAS FROM SHOTTS VERY DECENT BUT QUIET GENTLEMEN USE TO BEABLE TO DO VERY NICE ART WORK OF THE TWIN TOWERS AND EVERY AREA IN HARTWOOD HOSPITAL HE ALSO SHOWN HE A WORK OF ART OF THE TV MAST OVER IN SALSBURGH AREA HE WAS A VERY GOOD ARTIST AND VERY FIT WALKER SMOKING I SUPPOSE DIDNT HELP THE MATTER BUT NO HE WAS MAYBE THIN BUT WAS AS FIT AS A FIDDLE DIDNT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIS YOUNG DAYS WHETHER HE WAS A BIG DRINKER WASNT SURE IF HE WAS YOU HEAR STORIES BUT YOU DONT KNOW WHICH ONE WAS CORRECT OR IF ANY BUT I KNEW HE WOULD HAVE A WHISKY NOW N AGAIN ONCE IN A BLUE MOON BUT YEAH I KNEW PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN THE LAUNDRY A MARGRET STORRIE AND A MARGRET FRIEL AND I ALSO KNOW JOHN AND MICHEAL AKA MICKY KELLY FAE SHOTTS THEY WERE NURSES AND I ALSO KNEW GILLIAN K MULVEY A NURSE AS WELL N SOME OF THE MCSEVENEYS AND MCAULEYS WORKED THERE TOO THEY TOO WERE ALL FROM SHOTTS WHICH IS WHERE I WAS BORN AND BREAD BUT YEA I KNEW SOME OF THE NURSES AND PATIENTS IN THIS PLACE. The BBC understands more than 51,000 people are. This substantial post-war hospital was designed for the mentally handicapped by, Hospitals for mental illnesses and disabilities in Scotland, former Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley revisited, Atkinson Morley Hospital, now Wimbledon Hill Park, Ayr District Asylum, William Railtons unbuilt design, Lunatic at Large: an escaped patient from Ayr District Asylum, Building Bedlam Bethlem Royal Hospitals early incarnations, Building Bedlam again taking a leap forward to Monks Orchard, Brislington House, now Long Fox Manor, Georgian Bristols exclusive private madhouse, Bristol Lunatic Asylum, now the Glenside Campus of UWE, Craighouse, Edinburgh: former private asylum, future housing development, Dry January? DUNDEE ROYAL LUNATIC ASYLUM, ALBERT STREET(demolished)The Dundee Royal Asylum was founded in 1805 and built to designs byWilliam Starkin 1812. STRATHMARTINE HOSPITALThe principal buildings were designed byJames Maclaren & Sonto replace the earlier hospital. It is a substantial but plain house given individuality by a corner drum tower with a decorative ironwork circlet. Edinburgh's abandoned asylum which housed some of the city's richest BELLSDYKE HOSPITAL, LARBERT (demolished) The former Stirling District Asylum, Bellsdyke Hospital originally opened in 1869 on a site adjacent to the Royal Scottish National Hospital which had itself recently opened. Unlike the villas at asylums such as Bangour, where the villas were designed to have a definite domestic appearance, the villas at stoneyetts are more like ward pavilions, with simple swept gables. The two towers rose in bold square section and were capped by balustrades enclosing a very elongated domed cupola. The building has a monumental quality in its heavy forms, the surface texture full of contrasts from the rough faced masonry to the intricately carved capitals. The main building contractor for the mason and brickwork was D. Kirkland of Ayr, the other tradesmen were McLeod & Son, Dumbarton, wright; Auld & Sons, Ayr, plumbers and plasterers; P. & W. McLellan Ltd, Glasgow for the steel work;, Kean and Wardrop, Glasgow, tilers; Willock & Son, Ayr, painters, and J. Gibbons of Wolverhampton, ironmonger. The house was converted into the institution byAlexander Cullen(junior) and it opened on 3 July 1923. Time: 9:00pm - 3:00am. Elmhill House, designed byWilliam Rammage, was set in extensive pleasure grounds, laid out with terraces and drives. [Sources: The Builder, 3 July 1886, p.37: Tayside Health Board, Annual Reports and some plans at the Hospital.]. 11 talking about this. It is flanked by the patients pavilions and to the rear is the administration building, its two bold turrets overpowering the elevation. Stoneyetts therefore became a certified institution for mental defectives until Lennox Castle Institution was opened. CRAIG PHADRAIG HOSPITAL, INVERNESSSituated adjacent to Craig Dunain, Craig Phadraig was opened in 1970 for mentally handicapped patients. Despite a number of schemes being put forward to restore the building and convert it into flats, in 2014 it remained in a ruinous condition and is on the Register ofBuildings at Risk for Scotland. The Old House of Glack dates from 1723 and was converted into nurses accommodation when it was acquired by the Hospital. They are in roughly chronological order of foundation/opening. His name was Daniel McMullan, It must of been a visitation because there was a group working to bring dignity to the ransacked burial ground and I was just in time to donate the amount to go over their target in a go-fund-me. Venture to the northeast coast to find one of Scotland's most chilling ruins. In 1898 a new female hospital block was added and in 1900 a new laundry was provided. The site of Hawkhead was purchased in c.1889 and eight local architects requested to submit plans for a 400bed asylum, with an administrative section suitable for an extended asylum of 600 hundred beds. He died in 1823 leaving no issue. One was for male and the other for female patients. The sad secrets of Glasgow's abandoned mental hospital Hidden away in a secluded rural spot north of Glasgow, Lennox Castle Hospital is an abandoned building with a very interesting history. The Westgreen buildings had been designed as a pauper asylum and a separate section for private patients was planned but had to be postponed. [1] HARTWOOD HOSPITAL, SHOTTS (largely demolished)This vast complex, with its sister institution of Hartwood Hill, must have formed one of the largest hospital sites in Scotland. Its rumored that St. Andrews is only one of two original asylums that has a curved corridor. The original design was byWilliam Stirling III, but he died before work was completed, so the plans were seen through byJames Brown. It was established by Dr Fairless for the middle classes, and designed to accommodate between 100 and 120 patients. It was another of these vast, Victorian-style asylums (although built in 1913) and I spent a year working there in linen services in the 1980s. Most aspects of local life are covered, from valuation . I have a great Uncle buried in the cemetery there. Politics latest updates: NHS 'on the brink' says nursing union; 10% The grounds are walled, for the purposes of security, privacy and restraint there are smaller yards attached to the buildings for the use of patients whose state requires more careful surveillance. The chapel was not built until the turn of the century, when Sir J. J. Burnet was employed to provide new plans. The plans were revised in 1969, but finally shelved with the move to care in the community. It looks like a very grim place. More controversial therapies carried out included seclusion, electroconvulsive therapy, and it was the first place in Scotland to perform the lobotomy; a surgical procedure which left patients in a lifeless, vegetative state. In the 1920s a further development on the site below the main buildings, near the entrance gates, was built. There is a considerable variety of plan and composition which add interest to the site. The foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1900. It was abandoned in 1995 and is now in a severe state of dereliction. The Scotia Bar. Bangour was designed as a self-contained village with its own water supply and reservoir, drainage system and fire fighting equipment. The hospital officially closed in 2011, with patients being moved to the Susan Carnegie Centre built at Stracathro Hospital. LochlanMcIverPhotography 28DL Member. Those on the brow of the hill are of twostoreys or more but the residential blocks are single storey and built into the hillside to preserve the dramatic view down to Inverness and the Moray Firth. In 1958 the asylum adopted the name of Ailsa Hospital and ten years later Glengall House was converted for use as a short term Neurosis Unit and renamed Loudon House. The first patients were admitted in December 1896 although the official opening took place six months later. The individual blocks have many features typical of Abercrombies meticulous work seen in the details of the chimney stacks, and in his treatment of the dormers and gables. In about 1780 the estate was bought by the Reverend Colin Mackenzie, who was reputedly the first person to recognize the therapeutic properties of the mineral springs at Strathpeffer. Disclaimer: Although it is a great place to explore and photograph, Hartwood Hospital is in quite a state of dereliction. The later buildings were of flat roofed fireproofconstruction, in ashlar. In 1864 the spiral stair was removed from the octagonal tower and a cupola placed on the roof. ], HERDMANDFLAT HOSPITAL, HADDINGTON, EAST LOTHIANBuilt as the Haddington District Asylum byPeddie & Kinnearc.1860. These were split into two main wards with 28 beds and two side rooms with two beds, together with a dayroom and sanitary annexe. A brief look at Victorian hydropathic establishments in Scotland, The Ducker House, American prefab of the 1880s, Identifying Hospital Huts of the Great War. Originally known as Lanark District Asylum, Hartwood Hospital was opened to patients in 1895 and was completely self sustaining; it had its own farm, gardens, cemetery, railway line, staff accommodation, power plant and reservoir. Sunnyside Hospital / Montrose Asylum, Scotland - Behind Closed Doors This forms the nucleus of the asylum section, a group of six tall, threestorey buildings, including the four villas with link corridors, and gabled single storey ranges for workshops, kitchen, laundry and boiler house, all surviving in excellent condition. It was also designed by Smart, Stewart and Mitchell. In 1916 a new admission hospital was completed and the imposing nurses home to the south was opened in 1931. Urbex: Connacht District Lunatic Asylum aka St Brigid's Psychiatric The hospital closed in 1984. Inside ghost town shopping centre abandoned 25 years after opening